First Look: Aardman's New 2012 Animated Adventure 'The Pirates!'

Ahoy, mateys! A fantastic new first look at Aardman Animations upcoming movie The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists has been unveiled on HeyUGuys along with a press release announcing voice cast and more details. Aardman is the company behind Wallace & Gromit and Flushed Away and is working with Sony Pictures Animation this time for The Pirates!, a stop-motion 3D animated film based on Gideon Defoe's books. With another new Pirates of the Caribbean out in just a few weeks, pirates are definitely in, as this looks awesome. Hugh Grantwill be voicing the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain. See him below!

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Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Sounds fun. Co-directing the film is Peter Lord, of Chicken Run previously, and Jeff Newitt, from a script by Gideon Defoe. Sony will be bringing The Pirates! to theaters March 30th, 2012.